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My grandmother was a remarkable woman. 我的祖母是一个很了不起的女人。 But it is important to remember that a steady upward path upon which the Fords embarked began with a morally complicated act. 但更重要的是,与福特家事业稳
When he ran for governor of Florida, 在竞选佛罗里达州州长的时候, he repeatedly referred to himself as a self-made man, 杰布布什一再声称自己是白手起家者。 and it is a measure of how deeply we associate success with the
The air was filled with cigar smoke 空气中混杂着各种气味: and the smell champagne and sweat-soaked hockey gear. 雪茄的烟味、香槟的酒味以及曲棍球鞋的汗味。 On the wall was a hand painted banner: 其中一面墙上挂着手
Here he was, a man with a one-in-a-million mind, and he had yet to make any impact on the world. 而他,是一个目前依旧影响着世界的人,一个拥有独一无二的智商的人。 He wasn't holding forth at academic conferences. He wasn
Today, Chris Langan lives in rural Missouri on a horse farm. 如今,克里斯兰根生活在密苏里州乡下的一个养马农场。 He moved there a few years ago, after he got married. 多年以前,他在结婚之后便搬到了这里。 He's
Then came the 1970s. The old aversion to lawsuits fell by the wayside. 接着20世纪70年代来临了。原来人们对诉讼案件的鄙视态度被弃置一旁。 It became easier to borrow money. Federal regulations were relaxed. Markets became i
I certainly had come far. But I ought to understand how limited the possibilities of a firm like his 我之所以到这,当然是无事不登三宝殿。但是,我明白,像他这样的公司, were to hire a boy of my antecedents. And while h
On one occasion, Borgenicht realized that his only chance to undercut bigger firms was to convince the wholesalers to sell cloth to him directly, cutting out the middlemen. 一次,路易斯突然意识到,他唯一能够同大公司进行竞争的机
By 1913, there was something like sixteen thousand separate companies in the city's garment business, many just like the Borgenicht's shop on Sheriff Street. 到1913年为止,在纽约,共有1600家独立的服装公司。大多都类似于路易斯
No one rises to the top of the New York legal profession unless he or she is smart and ambitious and hardworking, 如果一个人,他十分聪明、拥有野心、工作十分努力,那么他就有机会进入到纽约法律界的最核心层面。
It's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen amp; Katz. The firm's first partner was Herbert Wachtell. 黑石法律公司的创始人是瓦太尔、利普顿、罗林和卡兹,公司的第一个合伙人是赫勃特.瓦太尔, He was born in 1931. 他出生于19
Part Two Legacy 第二部分:传承 Chapter Six 第六章 Harlan, Kentucky 哈兰,肯塔基州哈兰 DIE LIKE A MAN, LIKE YOUR BROTHER DID! 像男人一样消逝,就像你哥哥那样! In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of
When one family fights with another, it's a feud. 当一个家族与另一个家族展开斗争时,就成了一个世代的恩怨。 When lots of families fight with one another in identical little towns up and down in the same mountain range, it's
Then the errors startand not just one error. 问题往往从这里开始,通常单个错误不会造成重大事故。 Typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. 典型的事故都会涉及七个连续的人为失误。 One of the pi
There is something beautiful in the subtlety of that exchange, in the attention that each party must pay to the motivations and desires of the other. 这段对话的精彩之处就在于它蕴涵的意思非常微妙,双方都需要注意对方言谈
Chapter Eight Rice Paddies and Math Tests 第八章 稻谷种植与数学测试 NO ONE WHO CAN RISE BEFORE DAWN 360 DAYS A YEAR FAILS TO MAKE HIS FAMILY RICH. 早起的鸟有食吃 The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up thr
Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years. 在中国,种植水稻的历史已有数千年。 It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout east Asia-Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. 随后,东亚地区
How could that be a bad bargain? 而这种条件互换在什么情况下会失败呢? Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. 在这本书中,所有我们看到的成功都是有迹可循, It's not
The beginning is hard, he went on. By the end of the day, they are restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. 一开始很难,他继续说:他们一整天都坐立不安。因为他们缺乏耐力和动力, Part of it is incen
But in western agriculture, the opposite is true. Unless the field is that left fallow every few years, the soil becomes exhausted. Every winter, fields are empty. 但是在西方的农作习惯中,情况刚好相反。每隔几年土地就得闲置一